Ahom language
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Ahom language is an extinct Tai language once spoken by the Ahom people of Assam in northeastern India, now preserved mainly in religious and historical manuscripts.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ahom language canonical | 7 |
| Tai Ahom language | 2 |
| Tai-Ahom language | 2 |
| Ahom | 1 |
| Tai-Ahom | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2957636 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ahom language Context triple: [Southwestern Tai, hasMajorLanguage, Ahom language]
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A.
Meitei language
Meitei language is the principal Tibeto-Burman language of the Indian state of Manipur, serving as its official and most widely spoken tongue.
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B.
Chakma language
The Chakma language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Chakma people of Bangladesh and northeastern India.
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C.
Assamese
Assamese is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Indian state of Assam and recognized as one of the official languages of India.
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D.
Manipuri
Manipuri is a Tibeto-Burman language of Northeast India, primarily associated with the Meitei people of Manipur and recognized as one of India’s scheduled languages.
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E.
Karbi language
The Karbi language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Karbi people in Northeast India, especially in Assam.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ahom language Target entity description: Ahom language is an extinct Tai language once spoken by the Ahom people of Assam in northeastern India, now preserved mainly in religious and historical manuscripts.
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A.
Meitei language
Meitei language is the principal Tibeto-Burman language of the Indian state of Manipur, serving as its official and most widely spoken tongue.
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B.
Chakma language
The Chakma language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Chakma people of Bangladesh and northeastern India.
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C.
Assamese
Assamese is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Indian state of Assam and recognized as one of the official languages of India.
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D.
Manipuri
Manipuri is a Tibeto-Burman language of Northeast India, primarily associated with the Meitei people of Manipur and recognized as one of India’s scheduled languages.
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E.
Karbi language
The Karbi language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Karbi people in Northeast India, especially in Assam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tai language
ⓘ
extinct language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ahom kingdom
ⓘ
Ahom religion ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| currentUse |
liturgical language
ⓘ
scholarly study ⓘ |
| documentation |
Buranji chronicles
ⓘ
linked to:
Ahom chronicles (Buranjis)
|
| ethnicGroup |
Ahom people
ⓘ
linked to:
Tai-Ahom people
|
| extinctionPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| glottologCode | ahom1240 ⓘ |
| hasManuscriptCollectionIn |
Assam State Museum
ⓘ
British Library ⓘ Department of Historical and Antiquarian Studies Assam ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
tone ⓘ |
| hasScriptUnicodeBlock |
Ahom Unicode block
ⓘ
linked to:
Ahom script
|
| hasWritingTraditionSince | 13th century ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Assam
ⓘ
northeastern India ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Assamese language
ⓘ
linked to:
Assamese
|
| ISO639-3 | aho ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Tai-Kadai language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Tai–Kadai languages
|
| lexicalBorrowingFrom | Assamese language ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology | analytic language ⓘ |
| preservationForm |
palm-leaf manuscripts
ⓘ
paper manuscripts ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
historical manuscripts
ⓘ
religious manuscripts ⓘ |
| region | Brahmaputra Valley ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Lao language
ⓘ
linked to:
Lao
Shan language ⓘ Thai language ⓘ |
| revitalizationEfforts | limited liturgical revival ⓘ |
| script | Ahom script ⓘ |
| shiftedTo |
Assamese language
ⓘ
linked to:
Assamese
|
| spokenInPastBy |
Ahom people
ⓘ
linked to:
Tai-Ahom people
|
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| subfamily | Southwestern Tai ⓘ |
| usedAs | court language of Ahom kingdom ⓘ |
| usedFor |
astrological texts
ⓘ
chronicles ⓘ divination texts ⓘ ritual texts ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | abugida ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Ahom language Description of subject: Ahom language is an extinct Tai language once spoken by the Ahom people of Assam in northeastern India, now preserved mainly in religious and historical manuscripts.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ahom language
linked to: Ahom language
linked to: Ahom language
linked to: Ahom language
linked to: Ahom language
subject linked to:
Shyam (in some local usage)
linked to: Ahom language